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if your into the minimal thing but do not like the 5 Toes [i have a pair and find then slow to take on and off], take a look at the offerings from Altra Shoes.

http://www.altrazerodrop.com

 

I started with one pair around christmas, and I now have two pairs of their shoes.

 

One for when [and if] i go running -- The Instinct

and one pair is for playing around with the kids and what not -- The Lone Peak.

 

These shoes are nice because they give the "zero drop" of bearfoot running, and have a nice and wide toe box so your toes are still free to wiggle as they want, but they offer more foot protection then the 5 Fingers, and in cold weather i can put on wool socks with them and go for a winter run.

 

That said i have never done steadicam in them. For me, the past years I almost always have warn Keen Voyager Mids [a light hiking shoe] when i strap on the rig.

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Highly recommend everyone take a look at this book I'm currently reading: "Born to Run" by Christopher McDougall.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Born-Run-Hidden-Superathletes-Greatest/dp/0307279189/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347376785&sr=8-1&keywords=born+to+run

 

I know a few other people have mentioned that if they could operate barefoot, they would. I did Steadicam last weekend in my Vibrams, and like I posted before, I really liked it (Rob's just happy to hear my feet finally woke up... the rest of me is struggling of course). Apparently, 5 Fingers were first invented for sailing so deckhands could have much stronger grip on the deck with their feet, but still feel barefoot and maintain dexterity. As someone frequently paranoid of spilled bottled water or slipping on painted concrete in studios, I found the Vibrams incredible "grippy".

 

I transcribed a bit of the most compelling chapter of the book, but I'd really recommend you buy the book to get the rest. Here's a short snippet:

 

Lost in all the fireworks between Ted and Caballo was an important point: running shoes may be the most destructive force to ever hit the human foot. Barefoot Ted, in his own weird way, was becoming the Neil Armstrong of twenty-first-century distance running, an ace test pilot whose small steps could have tremendous benefit for the rest of mankind. If that seems like excessive stature to load on Barefoot Ted’s shoulders, consider these words by Dr. Daniel Lieberman, a professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University:

“A lot of foot and knee injuries that are currently plaguing us are actually caused by people running with shoes that actually make our feet weak, cause us to overpronate, give us knee problems. Until 1972, when the modern athletic shoe was invented by Nike, people ran in very thin-soled shoes, had strong feet, and had much lower incidence of knee injuries.”

And the cost of those injuries? Fatal disease in epidemic proportions. “Humans really are obligatorily required to do aerobic exercise in order to stay healthy, and I think that has deep roots in our evolutionary history,” Dr. Lieberman said. “If there’s any magic bullet to make hu- man beings healthy, it’s to run.”

Magic bullet? The last time a scientist with Dr. Lieberman’s credentials used that term, he’d just created penicillin. Dr. Lieberman knew it, and meant it. If running shoes never exis- ted, he was saying, more people would be running. If more people ran, fewer would be dying of degenerative heart disease, sudden cardiac arrest, hypertension, blocked arteries, dia- betes, and most other deadly ailments of the Western world.

That’s a staggering amount of guilt to lay at Nike’s feet. But the most remarkable part? Nike already knew it.

In April 2001, two Nike reps were watching the Stanford University track team practice. Part of a Nike rep’s job is getting feedback from its sponsored runners about which shoes they prefer, but that was proving difficult at the moment because the Stanford runners all seemed to prefer ... nothing.

“Vin, what’s up with the barefooting?” they called to Stanford head coach Vin Lananna. “Didn’t we send you enough shoes?”

Coach Lananna walked over to explain. “I can’t prove this,” he explained, “but I believe when my runners train barefoot, they run faster and suffer fewer injuries.”

Faster and fewer injuries? Coming from anyone else, the Nike guys would have politely uh-huhed and ignored it, but this was one coach whose ideas they took seriously. Like Joe Vi- gil, Lananna was rarely mentioned without the word “visionary” or “innovator” popping up. In just ten years at Stanford, Lananna’s track and cross-country teams had won five NCAA team championships and twenty-two individual titles, and Lananna himself had been named NCAA

Cross Country Coach of the Year. Lananna had already sent three runners to the Olympics and was busy grooming more with his Nike-sponsored “Farm Team,” a post-college club for the best of the very best. Needless to say, the Nike reps were a little chagrined to hear that Lananna felt the best shoes Nike had to offer were worse than no shoes at all.

“We’ve shielded our feet from their natural position by providing more and more support,” Lananna insisted. That’s why he made sure his runners always did part of their workouts in bare feet on the track’s infield. “I know as a shoe company, it’s not the greatest thing to have a sponsored team not use your product, but people went thousands of years without shoes. I think you try to do all these corrective things with shoes and you overcompensate. You fix things that don’t need fixing. If you strengthen the foot by going barefoot, I think you reduce the risk of Achilles and knee and plantar fascia problems.”

“Risk” isn’t quite the right term; it’s more like “dead certainty.” Every year, anywhere from 65 to 80 percent of all runners suffer an injury. That’s nearly every runner, every single year. No matter who you are, no matter how much you run, your odds of getting hurt are the same. It doesn’t matter if you’re male or female, fast or slow, pudgy or ripped as a racehorse, your feet are still in the danger zone.

Maybe you’ll beat the odds if you stretch like a swami? Nope. In a 1993 study of Dutch athletes published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine, one group of runners was taught how to warm up and stretch while a second group received no “injury prevention” coaching. Their injury rates? Identical. Stretching came out even worse in a follow-up study performed the following year at the University of Hawaii; it found that runners who stretched were 33 percent more likely to get hurt.

Lucky for us, though, we live in a golden age of technology. Running-shoe companies have had a quarter century to perfect their designs, so logically, the injury rate must be in free fall by now. After all, Adidas has come up with a $250 shoe with a microprocessor in the sole that instantly adjusts cushioning for every stride. Asics spent three million dollars and eight years—three more than it took the Manhattan Project to create the first atomic bomb—to in- vent the awe-inspiring Kinsei, a shoe that boasts “multi-angled forefoot gel pods,” a “midfoot thrust enhancer,” and an “infinitely adaptable heel component that isolates and absorbs im- pact to reduce pronation and aid in forward propulsion.” That’s big bucks for sneaks you’ll have to toss in the garbage in ninety days, but at least you’ll never limp again.

Right?

Sorry.

“Since the first real studies were done in the late ’70’s, Achilles complaints have actually

increased by about 10 percent, while plantar fasciitis has remained the same,” says Dr. Stephen Pribut, a running-injury specialist and past president of the American Academy of

Podiatric Sports Medicine. “The technological advancements over the past thirty years have been amazing,” adds Dr. Irene Davis, the director of the Running Injury Clinic at the University of Delaware. “We’ve seen tremendous innovations in motion control and cushioning. And yet the remedies don’t seem to defeat the ailments.”

In fact, there’s no evidence that running shoes are any help at all in injury prevention. In a 2008 research paper for the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Dr. Craig Richards, a re- searcher at the University of Newcastle in Australia, revealed that there are no evid- ence-based studies—not one—that demonstrate that running shoes make you less prone to injury.

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Just shot a music video all day with my Vibram (Komodosport LS) for the first time after reading this post.

It felt great and I loved the way you can feel the ground and react quickly. I have to say that I put my big Merrell shoes for lunch and before and agter the shoot to go home in the subway, and after a long day, the cushiony feeling was welcome. But during the day, man I loved those shoes.

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Just completed a 3 day commercial, and I wore my Vibram FF Spyridon LS the whole time. Gotta say, interior or exterior, I really appreciated the control and dexterity. Hardwood floors didn't make me concerned if someone just spilled water on it, outside walking over terrain was easy, etc. I just ordered a couple pairs of the Injinji low profile socks that work with the VFF shoes, but otherwise I really appreciated working in my Vibrams. Weather permitting, I'll probably keep wearing them.

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I prefer Nike. http://thecrossfitshoes.com/category/nike/ According to my experience, these shoes are comfortable enough to wear often for everyday activities as well as running. But everything depends on your own preferences. Nowadays we have a great variety of quality shoes with the use of advanced technologies for such “must-haves” as cushioning, stability, breathability, flexibility. You should go to the nearest sportswear store and try smth on!

Always pay attention to the insole and midsole cushioning technologies and how bouncy they are. Otherwise, you’re guaranteed to have a pain in the muscles of the feet already by the end of the first training. Here’s another trick for a successful purchase: choose shoes at the end of your day, when your feet are tired and swollen. It is in this state they must be comfortable in the sports footwear.

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I originally bought this for my lady to get me out of giving foot massages. Never thought I'd be into it but it's now part of my come home after work and relax program:

https://www.amazon.com/3Q-Massager-Kneading-pressure-Function/dp/B00H8Z7DIM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492010993&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=3q+foot+massager&psc=1

 

Well worth it.

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Before the last season of our show I went to one of those running shoe stores where they watch you walk and measure your feet.

 

I told them I needed dark colored shoes that don't force my foot forward when my heel hits to aid in walking slowly.

 

I ended up with some Adidas running shoes that were all cloth uppers with some rubberized screen printing on top for some support. They were lightweight and really comfortable and lasted 22 episodes.

 

Only problem was they were terrible in the cold or rain so neos or boots were also necessary.

 

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